THE FIVE OF US is a captivating tale of adventure, friendship & teamwork from one of Britain`s best-loved illustrators. Angie, Ollie, Simona, Mario & Eric are five fantastic friends, each of whom has an unusual ability. Disaster strikes on a day out to the countryside but, working together & combining their individual powers, the Fantastic Five save the day. Teeming with Quentin Blake`s characteristic sense of fun & his exuberant illustrations, THE FIVE OF US is also a powerful, though subtle, reminder that the world is a better place when we focus on what we can do, rather than on what we can`t. ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips & Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle` He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.. . He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, & he knows well every quiver of each of them` Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London`s foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, & his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these breathtaking & perplexing mysteries. In Arthur Conan Doyle`s The Five Orange Pips & Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous & devilishly difficult problems. The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Winner of the Best Story Blue Peter Book Award 2017A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills known as the Razorback Downs... Podkin is the son of a warrior chieftain. He knows that one day it will be up to him to lead his warren & guard it in times of danger. But for now, he`s quite happy to laze around annoying his older sister Paz, & playing with his baby brother Pook. Then Podkin`s home is brutally attacked, & the young rabbits are forced to flee. The terrifying Gorm are on the rampage, & no one & nowhere is safe. With danger all around them, Podkin must protect his family, uncover his destiny, & attempt to defeat the most horrifying enemy rabbitkind has ever known. ...

Longlisted for the FT/ Mc Kinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2016 From immigration reform to energy resources, from political paralysis to inequality & extremism, we are beset by a raft of huge & seemingly insurmountable issues. The daily newspapers, the rolling 24-hour television news, portray a world in terminal decline: the rise of IS, the Syrian refugee crisis, Beijing`s financial fallibility & Putin`s brazen annexing of the Crimea. The ripples are felt by us all in our everyday lives
- in unemployment figures or, if we`re lucky, our stubbornly flat payslips, in the crumbling roads, Tube strikes & sky-rocketing tuition fees. What goes under-reported are the success stories. Here, taking ten of the most knotty issues we face today, Jonathan Tepperman examines unsung individuals` bold & innovative attempts against all odds & expectations to solve some of the important problems governments have struggled with for decades. Each chapter tells the story of one government that`s found a way to avoid the snares that entangle most of the others. The solutions described in the book aren`t speculative: they`ve all already been tried, & they work. Controversial, provocative but always stimulating, Tepperman here offers a powerful, data-driven case for optimism. Written with flair & an infectious exuberance, The Fix is a book to restore hope to the pessimistic, & offer both practical advice & inspiration in a time of relentless bad news.
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The world`s most intractable problems solved: ambitious lessons in leadership & hope from free-thinkers & innovators who have tackled our biggest challenges From immigration reform to energy resources, from political paralysis to inequality & extremism, we are beset by a raft of huge & seemingly insurmountable issues. The daily newspapers, the rolling 24-hour television news, portray a world in terminal decline. What goes under-reported are the success stories. Here, taking ten of the most knotty issues we face today, Jonathan Tepperman examines unsung individuals` bold & innovative attempts against all odds & expectations to solve some of the important problems governments have struggled with for decades. Each chapter tells the story of one government that`s found a way to avoid the snares that entangle most of the others. The solutions described in the book aren`t speculative: they`ve all already been tried, & they work. Controversial, provocative but always stimulating, Tepperman here offers a powerful, data-driven case for optimism. Written with flair & an infectious exuberance, The Fix is a book to restore hope to the pessimistic, & offer both practical advice & inspiration in a time of relentless bad news. ...

The brand new novel in Bernard Cornwell`s number one bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2`s major TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series. From the day it was stolen from me I had dreamed of recapturing Bebbanburg. The great fort was built on a rock that was almost an isl&, it was massive, it could only be approached on land by a single narrow track
- & it was mine. Britain is in a state of uneasy peace. Northumbria`s Viking ruler, Sigtryggr, & Mercia`s Saxon Queen Aethelflaed have agreed a truce. & so England`s greatest warrior, Uhtred of Bebbanburg, at last has the chance to take back the home his traitorous uncle stole from him so many years ago
- & which his scheming cousin still occupies. But fate is inexorable & the enemies Uhtred has made & the oaths he has sworn combine to distract him from his dream of recapturing Bebbanburg. New enemies enter into the fight for England`s kingdoms: the redoubtable Constantin of Scotland seizes an opportunity for conquest & leads his armies south. Britain`s precarious peace threatens to turn into a war of annihilation. But Uhtred is determined that nothing, neither the new enemies nor the old foes who combine against him, will keep him from his birthright. He is the Lord of Bebbanburg, but he will need all the skills he has learned in a lifetime of war to make his dream come true.

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When Elspeth Huxley`s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubl&, infested with ticks & white ants, & quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination: building a grass house, employing local Kikuyu tribe members & painstakingly transforming their patch of wilderness into a working farm. Huxley`s unforgettable childhood memoir is a sensitive account of settler life at the turn of the twentieth century & a love song to the harshness & beauty of East Africa. ...

The year is 1977 & Reno
- so called because of the place of her birth
- has come to New York intent on turning her fascination

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This is shortlisted for the 2013 national book awards. Reno mounts her motorcycle & sets a collision course for New York. In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality & danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown & the lines between reality & performance begin to bleed. A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empire carries Reno to Milan, where she is swept along by the radical left & drawn into a spiral of violence & betrayal. The Flamethrowers is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery & fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other. ...

The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess. In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. Yet two years before he could sit for the portrait, one of them was murdered. In 20th-century Madrid, Julia, a picture restorer preparing the painting for auction, uncovers a hidden inscription in Latin that points to the crime: Quis necavit equitem? Who killed the knight? But as she teams up with a brilliant chess theoretician to retrace the moves, she discovers the deadly game is not yet over. ...